Dr Ogilvie, who is also a research fellow in linguistics at Oxford University, calls the OED the "great crowdsourcing project" of the late 1800s. "It was the Wikipedia of the 19th century," she ...

Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

Linguist, lexicographer, and Oxford professor Sarah Ogilvie joined us to share her new book--"The Dictionary Peo Fri, 09 May 2025 10:22:34 GMT (1746786154268) Story, non-I.S. - News3 v1.0 ...

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie. Knopf, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-53640-7 ...

The Dictionary People. By Sarah Ogilvie. Knopf; 384 pages; $30. Chatto & Windus; £20. I n July 1915 an ailing James Murray (pictured), one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary ...

Author Sarah Ogilvie discusses how the Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people ...

Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project Salon talks to Sarah Ogilvie, author of "The Dictionary People," about the "unsung heroes" who ...

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30). Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study ...

The linguist and lexicographer unearths the histories of the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary The Tory xenophobes who police our coasts should watch their words. The so ...

HISTORY The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie Chatto & Windus, $35. Autobibliogenesis.

Sarah Ogilvie is a lexicographer and a proud and self-confessed word nerd: languages are her passion and are at the heart of her writing and scholarship.

The Oxford English Dictionary relied on contributions by volunteers from around the world. “The Dictionary People,” by Sarah Ogilvie, tells the fascinating story.